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politicians play musical chairs with greater frequency. You may be running for
dog-catcher today and state legislature two years from now. We do not want to help
your career if you are diametrically opposed to our positions on critical issues.
For upcoming elections, SPC has added, in addition to its confidential face to
face interview, an optional on-record semi-formal press conference in which
candidates seeking the endorsement will be encouraged to participate. All media
will be invited, but an emphasis will be placed upon seeking participation from
alternative and small media outlets, such as community newspapers, on-line
publications, and ethnic/non-English language press.
Additionally, SPC will chart your progress in office to hold incumbents' feet
to the fire by comparing the promises and representations they made during the
endorsement process to your performance in office. SPC will seek periodic face to
face meetings with those elected to review their efforts to implement their promises
and to help build public support for the reforms they have demanded and we expect
you to pledge yourself to such periodic review following the election.
Joint Candidate Interview Committee of the Same Page/Misma Pagina Coalition
2014 Candidate Questionnaire
For candidate convenience, the Same Page/Misma Pagina Coalition will jointly
consider candidates questionnaires and jointly interview candidates. SFV/NELA NOW
and CALLAC will make their own independent endorsements; CLI and Todos Unidos do
not endorse as 501(c)(3) non-profits, but participate for purposes of political education
for the public. The process begins with your submission of responses to the following
questionnaire:
Name of Candidate Cindy Montanez
Office Sought LA City Council, District 6
Party affiliation Democratic Party
Occupation Consultant/former Assembly member
Organizational Affiliations UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability
(board member), CHIRLA Action Fund, NOW, former member Teamster Local
396; formerly Womens Legislative Caucus, formerly Latino Legislative Caucus,
forermly Legislative Progressive Caucus.
Contact information for your campaign, including telephone, address, and email; names
of liaisons.
Cindy Montanez, 6277 Van Nuys Blvd #101 Van Nuys CA 91406 818.794.9466
votecindynow@gmail.com.
4. Do you support the Equal Rights Amendment and how will you work for its
passage? (For further information on the ERA see www.now.org)
Yes and I will introduce a city council ordinance to make Article 26 of the
International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights which the US has ratified
self-executing in Los Angeles; Article 26 states: All persons are equal
before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal
protection of the law. In this respect, the law shall prohibit any
discrimination and guarantee to all persons equal and effective protection
against discrimination on any ground such as race, colour, sex, language,
religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth
or other status.
5. What have you done to elect (and appoint) more women and more feminists to
public office?
I have consistently supported women within the Democratic Party. I have
contributed to, mentored, and in all ways actively supported women running
for office and for appointments to office.
6. Do you support a legislatively enacted Fast Track mandate for the
determination of family/child support issues? If not, explain your views.
Regarding child custody/visitation issues, do you support amending the Family
Code to provide that the public policy of California is that visitation or custody of
children with a violent parent, a domestic abuser, and/or a child molester IS NOT
in the best interests of the child?
Yes and Yes
7. Do you support SFV/NELA NOWs proposed criminalization of aiding and
abetting child support non-payment along with its provision creating a private
cause of action against the aiders and abettors (download copy from
www.sfvnow.org/blank.html)? If you dont support it, explain your views.
Yes
8. Do you support bringing back intentional cruelty as a California cause of action
for divorce, with automatic bifurcation of marital status, as a ground for a greater
allocation of income and assets to a spouse and/or children who have been the
victims of on-going domestic abuse?
Yes.
9. Do you support amending the California Evidence Code to preclude the
introduction of evidence that a spouse failed to have formal police reports of
abuse made unless the spouse who wishes to introduce such evidence to disprove
allegations of abuse first demonstrates that the police department(s) with
jurisdiction had realistic procedures and actual practices in effect that would
actually protect women from further abuse following an arrest or report of the
alleged abuse?
Yes.
10. Do you support the California Supreme Courts finding that marriage is a
fundamental right that it enunciated in Perez v Sharp (declaring laws against interracial marriage unconstitutional) and more recently when striking down laws
against same-sex marriage? Do you support the right of people to enter into samesex marriages as a matter of California law? If not, why not?
Yes and Yes.
11. Do you support federal passage of Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)
to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity?
Yes.
12. What is your position about TRAP laws being passed across the country which
have the express purpose of closing clinics that provide abortion related services?
How many clinics operate in your jurisdiction that provide abortion services,
family planning and reproductive health services for patients with limited means?
Do you think there need to be more? How would you accomplish this? How can
California ensure that there are such services available across our State to
everyone who needs them?
TRAP laws should be prohibited by federal legislation and abolished at state
and local levels. All legitimate health services should be provided as a matter
of right either through a single-payer system or through a system as
contemplated by the National Health Service Act as formerly introduced in
Congress by Ron Dellums and Barbara Lee.
13. Do you support public funding for organizations like Planned Parenthood? If not,
why not? If so, what will you do to ensure that such funding continues?
Yes and I will protect them to any extent possible in the City Council.
14. Do you agree that comprehensive sex education should be a part of school
curriculum? How would you support this? Do you agree that access to reliable
and reasonably priced birth control should be a fundamental right for everyone?
How do you propose countering the attacks against reproductive rights?
Yes and Yes. To the extent that the City Council can influence the Board of
Education, I would absolutely vote to do so, along with supporting the
existing trend towards implementing ethnic studies I would urge
implementation of womens studies at K-12 level. Beginning with middle
school, sex education should include mandatory use of Our Bodies
Ourselves from the Boston Feminist Womens Health Collective as required
reading.
II-Human, Civil & International Rights
15. Do you support the Model Ordinance for Citizen Oversight of Police Misconduct
(download copy from www.sfvnow.org/blank.html)? If not, explain your views
on the issues it raises.
Bail that reflects the financial circumstances of the accused and the
seriousness of the crime. Support.
interviews and have never been tested on their ability to do so. Do you support
incorporating the provisions of AB 1617 as a municipal ordinance binding on city
employment related investigations?
Yes, as previously noted I am committed to introducing this as a municipal
ordinance.
21. Legislating the goal of the Same Page/Misma Pagina/Ddok Got Eun Page/Haman
Safhe Coalition of adopting a Recommended Amendment to Remedy the Chilling
Effect of the Ruling in Hoffman Plastics vs. NLRB (by amending Section 1105
of the California Labor Code) (copy available at www.sfvnow.org/blank.html)
Support.
22. Amending Section 834c of the California Penal Code:
A.
To require mandatory Vienna Convention notifications for Mexican
nationals and the citizens of any other Western Hemisphere nation that desires
inclusion Support
B.
To place Vienna Convention notifications to detained individuals on a par
with Miranda warnings for purposes of suppression of evidence remedies
available under the California and United States Constitutions Support
23. Enacting legislation to make the provisions of the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights self-executing Support.
24. Enacting legislation to make the provisions of Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) self-executing Support.
25. Enacting legislation to make the provisions of the International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination self executing Support.
26. Enacting legislation to make the provisions of the Convention Against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment self-executing Support.
27. Passing a resolution supporting an end to United States (E.E.U.U.) unilateralism
in legislating immigration law and calling upon President Barack Obama and
Secretary of State John Kerry to invoke Article 21 of the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo (Treaty) for resolution of all issues between the United States of America
and the United States of Mexico, including but not limited to:
A.
Immigration policy
B.
Remedies for violations of and non-implementation of the Treaty and the
Protocols of Quaretaro (Protocols) by the United States of America
C.
Remedies and recompense for the ethnic cleansing (the Repatriation
program of the Hoover Administration) of 2,000,000 residents of the United
States of America in the 1930s, 1.2 million of whom were American citizens
Support.
28. A resolution urging a retroactive pardon for the purported crimes of Joaquin
Murrieta and an official apology to his descendants for the failure of the State of
California to prosecute gabachos who lynched his brother and gang raped his
wife.
Support.
29. Legislatively mandating that the affirmative defense of unclean hands in a judicial
foreclosure action and/or an unlawful detainer action subsequent to non-judicial
foreclosure is an absolute defense and may be used to abate a legal action if the
foreclosing party violated public policy in making, selling, trading, and/or
servicing the loan or assumed the liability for such a violation when taking
possession and/or control of the loan.
Support.
30. Strengthening the traditional American abolition of imprisonment for debt by
prohibiting municipal governments from criminalizing non-payment of taxes as a
stand alone violation.
Support.
31. Do you support abolition of the death penalty?
Support.
29. Do you support implementation of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)? If
you have had an opportunity to vote on it or on implementing legislation how did
you vote?
Do you support the ACA provision requiring coverage of
contraception for women?
Yes Yes and Yes
30. Do you support restoration of the right of the East Los Angeles Bobcats sports
program for children to conduct activities for free at Ruben Salazar Park by the
County of Los Angeles? If not, why not?
Yes and I would insist that alternative city facilities be made available if
needed.
31. Do you support an independent investigation into the killing of Ruben Salazar and
other participants in activities of the National Chicano Moratorium and
unconstitutional surveillance and disruption of peaceful political activities in the
late sixties and throughout the seventies?
Explain your ideas for
creating/empowering an independent investigating commission.
Yes and I would seek the advice of NCMC and other organizations exposing
these excesses to create such a commission.
32. Do you support the Dream Act? What is your position on immigration reform?
What is your position on whether undocumented immigrants should be able to
attend public schools, obtain a drivers license and obtain medical treatment if
needed?
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2. Do you think corporations that lobby in California and unions that lobby in
California should be brought to greater scrutiny when they profit heavily from
outsourcing jobs in film, TV, and commercial production?
Yes.
3. Do you think forcing our entertainment industry artists to work outside of the
state and the country making it difficult to raise children, be involved in their
communities, and help care for their elderly parents is a good idea? No.
4. Should California have a "pillow law" that gives families in the film, TV, and
commercial production industry incentives for staying home and sleeping on their
own pillows raising their children, caring for their aging parents and being
involved in their communities?
Yes.
5. Are you aware that the major studios who lobby at the national, state, and local
level only produced less than a dozen films last year?
Yes.
6. Do you think it is fair to force independent filmmakers in California to be limited
to a lottery when they are trying to stay in the state to make films and television?
No.
7. Are you aware that the majority of the TV productions green lighted by major
media will not be filmed in California? Do you think the state elected officials are
doing enough to stop the outsourcing of jobs in the entertainment industry.
Now I am and they aren't doing enough, nor is the City's so-called Film Czar
doing anything to reach out to Bring Hollywood Home Foundation or other
really interested parties.
8. Under the current system where the studios and the unions are involved in
outsourcing film, TV, and commercial production jobs is it not the job of elected
officials to find ways to stop the loss of billions in tax dollars from the loss of
these jobs?
Yes.
9. What would you be willing to do to get involved in calling the outsourcing of jobs
'piracy' of the future of California's youth?
I look forward to discussing this with Bring Hollywood Home and the Same
Page Coalition so that I can effectively legislate in the Los Angeles City
Council.
E-Mail your response as a Word, Open Office Writer, or PDF attached file to:
SFV/NELA NOW info@sfvnow.org
CALLAC callac@janbtucker.com
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CLI aaluevano@aol.com
Todos Unidos aamentor2000@aol.com
Miss Revolutionaries learlaw@earthlink.net
Bring Hollywood Home sharonhardeejimenez@gmail.com
United For Education mentefranca@msn.com
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